- The tests have shown that RTX 5080 is close to the performance of RTX 5090
- This despite the fact that RTX 5090 has a rather robust specification, and laptops with this GPU are much more expensive
- However, there are reasons for this, on the performance front, apparently involved in energy and thermal use
The NVIDIA RTX 5080 laptop GPU is surprisingly close to the performance of the RTX 5090 Mobile, performing some recent games of laptops of games that use these newly arrived graphics cards.
Although this is not a case of brilliant praise due to the speed of RTX 5080 as such, although it is very fast, rather it is a relative lack of thrust that Blackwell’s flagship GPU seems to be loaded (for a reason why I will return to later).
As you will remember, there have already been murmurs about the performance offered by the portable computer version of the RTX 5090 compared to the flagship of Nvidia on the desktop (although some scenarios can suggest otherwise).
Now, however, Videcardz noticed that the comparative tests of NotebookCck.net of the GPU of the RTX 5080 laptop have shown how close it is in the box velocities for the RTX 5090 superior dog mobile, within 10% to 15%, in fact.
The NotebookCK.NET report shows that, for example, in Assassin’s Creed Shadows in Full HD (Ultra Altos Details) is obtaining 74 FPS with RTX 5090 and 63 FPS with RTX 5080. Change to resolution 4K makes a difference 39 fps reproduce 34 fps, which is only 11% deceleration.
That is based on tests using laptops Schenker Neo 16 that have the RTX 5080 and 5090 inside, matched with the same processor (AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX).
In general terms, as expected, the gap is a bit larger in 4K versus lower resolutions, but it is never so large, often around, or just, the 10%mark.
ANALYSIS: CLAustrophobia Component
There is no doubt that RTX 5090 creates an excellent graphic engine for any portable game computer, the problem is also that the laptop is exorbitantly expensive. That is our review of the new Blade 16 Razer with the RTX 5090 (in the photo above) in a few words.
When you observe the enormous price difference of a laptop with an RTX 5090 and one with an RTX 5080, which means that you are paying about two more thirds (or others) for only a 10% difference (and perhaps a little), it is difficult to justify the tons of money needed to grab a laptop with the Blackwell flag. Really difficult.
You can scratch your head at this point if you are familiar with the relative specifications of these two portable GPUs. The RTX 5090 has 37% more graphic nuclei, and 50% more video memory (super fast), which adds considerably more thrust in the paper. So why it’s not Is RTX 5090 also considerably faster than RTX 5080?
Well, as Videcardz points out, the power envelope that limits these two mobile GPUs is the same, namely 150W (or a temporal impulse of 175W). And that restriction in the power that is supplied to the GPU is really what the RTX 5090 is retaining, and the thermal limitations of having such a powerful graphics card in a relatively small and claustrophobic laptop chassis.
While this is just a round of tests (very limited) that are presented here, given that factor, the relative results are not so surprising. However, what we must also remember about the RTX 5090 is that you can do what it does in a more refined way than the RTX 5080.
However, in the general image, unless it is not really worried about the sale price and money is not a real object, laptops RTX 5080 seem a much better and much better option current An flagship screen, for example, for example, but also what will also.
In any case, at this time, trying to see the benefits of Blackwell’s flagship in its laptop computer form, compared to the RTX 5090 truly formidable desktop GPU, it is a uphill, frankly. Maybe prices will begin to reflect this as a demand function, yes, we’ll see.
